Do some people never learn from the past?

Pugsport

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Well some of you may remember the post/rant i made about an issue i had back in September 2019 well it would seem that the person has learnt no lesson from that evening at all.

Damage wise its no where near as bad but again my rebuilt workshop has taken damage to the roof covering this time, its now covered in small burn holes which has caused a leak in the roof so i have had some lengths of oak which have been damaged by water, some tools that have got wet because of the leak and the only thing i am happy about is that i never changed the roof covering this year to rubber as it would have been £1500 lost.

A couple of images of the hole in the roof covering, a link to a video of them burning rubbish in the back garden and the view of it from my upstairs window and also a photo of how far away from the fence they were burning this stuff.

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The workshop roof is full of these burn holes and they are all around the area where the fire was.
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this was the view of them having a fire from my upstairs window and its not the first time this has happened as my neighbours keep telling me they do it a lot and always in the same place.
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this is the distance from the fence that they were having a fire. this is just a open fire of green garden waste on a concrete pad where the person was going to have a shed built. Its not really the fire that has worried me its the embers from the fire doing damage to my workshop roof and also the amount of ash that is blown by the wind/breeze into my garden, i have been out that in the afternoon when there has been hot embers and ash raining down meaning i have had to come indoors as it was not a nice place to be and not wanting to get covered in small burns and ash.

I have tried to speak to the neighbour about this problem and all i get is that the fire is under control and her garden who has the fires knows what he is doing but that was before they burnt holes in my roof and now it seem the neighbour is to busy to sort it out between us or would just rather not talk to me about the issue.

So i now have a choice to make

1: - I take my chances and cover the roof in rubber and hope they stop burning wet garden waste there so it won't get burnt again but i don't see this happening

2: - Spend some time and more money changing the roof from a flat roof to a pitched roof so i can put felt on it which would hopefully cope better with hot embers landing on it. Of course this is the more expensive option because the flat roof is already built and would mean more timber and the roof covering would have to be bought along with the time to rebuild it and of course the need for some okay weather

3: - i guess my only other option is to pull it down and not have a space where i can Paint things, build things etc

It upsets me that if i have a fire i do it in a burn bin to stop the hot embers, ash etc being blown around in the wind and i don't burn green waste which tends to smoke and spit more than dry timber (i only burn timber off cuts from projects) and i do my best to make sure that i am not causing anyone any problems and of course making sure i am not damaging anyone property even when these people don't do the same in return.

Out of the three neighbours i have (one on the left, one on the right and the one behind) i only have one good neighbour on the right hand side the one on the left likes to attach things like decorative panels, down pipe clips (which the screws stick threw the feather edge panel on my side) and lights to my fence panels pulling the feather edge boards off the panels, at no point have they asked if they can attach things to my fence at all and the one behind likes to burn my stuff, cost me money and then have the cheek to ask me to help her out with odd jobs and not pay for.

I have only just started to find my feet again after the fire in 2019 and can not afford to keep spending money fixing things other people have damaged but on the other hand without the workshop i really do think that would have a big impact on my health. I don't remember if i said about this in 2019 or not but i suffer with my health and found out in 2009 i had CFS/ME and the chances of me working again were pretty much 0 out of 10 but i have manage to get myself to a point where i can do an hour or two and some days maybe more but then i still also have days where i can't do anything but when i do feel able its a great relief to be able to get out there and make something from scratch or to take something and make it look like the vision i have in my head.

I used to love cars and working on them but in 2019 when i lost my Volkswagen Transporter van which i has been converting in to a camper van and fully restoring i lost love after watching it all go up in smoke and this might sound stupid to some people but after the hundreds of hours that were put into that van to make it better than it left the factory was heartbreaking. I suffered pretty badly mental health wise after the fire with having no workshop which was the space i went to when things were hard and i need some chill out time.

I have made some nice/cool things so i am told and have been told i should do it full time and sell things online and yes to a point i agree some things i do stand back and feel proud that i have managed to do that after all i was told i wouldn't be able to and i would love to take it on and do it but its like this week i had been asked to recover a bar billiards table for a friend of my dads after refinishing and recovering my uncles one two weeks ago but with a leaking workshop roof i don't have the space to do it so again a positive thing turns into a negative thing and i am at a loss if i should just give up the hands on stuff and just take up watching TV and play video games all day everyday

I won't bore you anymore. i just wish people could learn from the past and have more respect for other peoples stuff and even more so neighbours as we have to live next to each other ffs or maybe i am just out of line and asking to much
 
Neighbors from hell. It's terrible they won't take responsibility for their actions, but I think that's pretty normal today. A corrugated metal roof on the workshop might not be a bad idea. It's better than giving up on your hobbies and shouldn't be that expensive. It will also last way longer than any rubber or felt.
 
Yes the women over the back from me is a nightmare with burning my stuff and I tried to point out over the summer that having a fire there would cause damage to my stuff again but was told it would be fine as the fire was under control and then with all the rain we had this lately sure enough a leak started and then when i spoke to her again the other day she said if she had of known she wouldn't have had a fire there.

Yes I really thought about metal roofing on there but i just have a feeling that the house two doors down from me would complain about the noise of the rain hitting it as this person has already complained to the council about me using the compressor in the garden which i then had to keep a dairy of when it was running and when i used it etc for the council to look at as the neighbour had said i was using it for 2 hours solid two or three times a week. I kept an honest diary of when i was using it as i wanted to make sure I was doing nothing wrong etc and if i was i would do something about it but turns out over a 2 hour period the compressor was running for 15 to 20 minutes, where as he told them 2 hours so thankfully the council said I was all good and that was that. The bloke from the council did also say to me he was surprised I was not going out my way to use it more and annoy the neighbour more but as i said to him I don't want to be childish about it and all I want is to just do what i want/need to get done and thats it.
This neighbour also complains to other houses down the road about their children making noise in the garden in the summer, their children playing on their consoles and talking on mic and also asked my neighbour to take down their wind chime from their garden because it was to loud.

I just really don't want anymore reason for him to come round banging on my door, getting in my face about anything else really. We had a bad summer this year so me trying to be nice about it any good/nice days we had I tried to not use the compressor so people could enjoy their garden without the noise so I think I only used it 3 or 4 times this whole summer but I did also purchase a new larger compressor this year as the other one had gotten a little to small but the new one is slower running so makes less noise than the older one.

But you and the other neighbours are right though if i need to use metal I guess I will, I don't want to give up on doing the things I enjoy because of one or two neighbours but I will make sure I contact the council before doing it just to make sure its all fine and above board
 
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